Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-07-21

| presume no section Of the State has
| suffered more from the C0nre'ee SyS
| tenn in District nominations, than We
have in our Judicial (l9) Senatorial (S4)
a ld Congressional (2S)formellJ (.0) Dis
tricts, IN the last ten years
There does not seem To be any pow
or vested In either the State Committee
or State Convention To adopt I'M uni
form plan and compel obae' vance by
the districts and any action Ivy either
body will simply be advisory, which
should, however, do much Ia bring the
subject home to the careful considera-
tion of the people in the several dis.
tricts and thereby possibly bring about
desired reform.
From an experience Of ten or twelve
years had wits conferees and confer
ences, am clearly of the opinion that
representation in district conventions
shonld be enlarged TO one delegate or
| conferee (lnstead Of delegates for
each county, for each 500 votes or
majority, fraction thereof. said delegate
or conferees to be elected by single dis.
tricts TO be erected in each county, the
boundaries of said single districts to be
defined by theirrespectiye County Com
mittee.
The County Convention should have
nothing whatever to do with districts
conferee or delegates, and when n
single district Is composed OF more
than one election district, the members
of the County Committee for each @.
lection district embraced in single dis
trict, meet as return Judges and certi-
fy to the County Committee the result
of tbs delegate election in said single
district, and the Chairman Of the
County Committee to certify tho same
to the President of the district Con.
ventions.
Each county in the several Congress
sional, Senatorial ana Judicial districts
in the State TO be apportioned, based on
the last Presidential vote. Of compact
aud con tiguoUs territory. No ward. bor-
ough or precinct or township should be
divided in the formation Of single
district.
/ enclose you the paper sent me filled
out as directed, which | trust Is salts
factory. shall enGeavor to be at AL
lentown and hope TO see you personally
trusting yourCommitteec can accomplish
Il step forward in the mode OF district
nomination. am Yours Very truly,
JAS A. MCCLAIN,
Chairman.
The following resolutions endorsing
the above letter were unanimously
passed by the County Committee at It's
recent meeting:
WHEREAS. The manner of nominal
ingCongressional, Senatorial andJudicial
candidates by means OF the conferee
system which gives to each county that
may be contained in a Congressional,
Senatorial or judicial district regard
less Of the number Of Democratic
votes cast by each county, equal repre-.
seutations in the said conference Is in
furious, unwise, foreign to our system
of representative government, and has
proven a great injury to the peace and
harmony Of our party in every part ot
our state, is fruitful source Of frac-
tlonal fights and continually breeds
discord in our ranks, therefore it is
hereby
ReSolUed, That we heartily endorse
the plan proposed by the chairman OF
this committee il. his letter Of the 24th
inst 70 Murray Hush, chairman Of the
committee appointed by the State
Central Committee TO devise uniform
system of making Congressional, Sena'
torial and judicial nominations in dis
tricts composed of more than one coun-
ty." And as the representatives of
the Democracy of this county we call
upon the State Convention which shall
meet at A llentown on the 3lst of Au-
gust next 10 adopt such plans and re-
lieve the party in Congressional, Sena'
torial and Judicial districts from tue
curse Of the confcree system.